naughty naughty • Oxford University has become embroiled in a bitter argument with The Nikkon Dental University which is refusing to return ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrice’by Andrea Vesalius, a rare 16th Century book which was stolen from Christ Church over ten years ago along with seventy-three other books by music lecturer, Simon Heighes.

distopia watch • over his publication of a piece of horror fiction on his LiveJournal. The police have repeatedly visited the student and demanded that he submit his fingerprints and DNA to them so that they can compare the fictional murder he described in his story to evidence from any similar unsolved murders.

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut• Beloved by Toni Morrison• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien’• The Awakening by Kate Chopin • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan